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The Anatomy of The Saudi Revolution*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

David G. Edens
Affiliation:
University Of Connecticut

Extract

In his classic study of revolution, Crane Brinton succeeds in uncovering certain common features, or uniformities, which are present in all four of the great Western revolutions. In analysing the English Revolution of the 1640s, the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the more recent Russian Revolution, he employs ‘the fever of revolution’ as a conceptual measure of social disequilibrium. This pathological analogy provides a means of focusing attention upon the key uniformities of revolution.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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